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My name is Tal Imbar,
and I'm a medical doctor,
the Head of the Fertility
Preservation Service in
the In Vitro Fertilization
Unit of the Hadassah Hospital,
which is the Hebrew
University Medical Center.
I want to talk to you about
the Assisted Reproductive
Technology, ART,
in vitro fertilization,
intracytoplasmic sperm injection
and all other things that
correlate to this
new technology.
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The lecture will include
an introduction about
the history of IVF
and then a detailed explanation
about assisted
reproduction technologies.
I will talk about the ovarian
stimulation, its goals,
and how it achieves the
fertilization of the oocyte
by the sperm and
then embryo transfer
and implantation.
I will talk about gamete
and embryo freezing and
our new freezing technologies
and I'll also talk about
other technologies
and the other revolution that
happens due to our
IVF abilities,
mainly the genetic revolution
and the pre-gestational testing
and the surrogacy and
uterine transplantation.
In the end,
I will mention some of
the embryonic stem cells,
nuclear transfer and
cellular therapy
being applied in the
infertility clinic these days.
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41 years ago,
this short letter in
the Lancet Journal
was the peak of years of
research in reproduction.
The scientific paper
was very short,
in the form of a
public announcement,
without any details about
how the IVF was really done.
Lesley Brown and her
husband John had failed to
conceive naturally
throughout the nine years
of their continuous marriage.
Lesley Brown had
bilateral tubal blocks.
Dr. Robert Edwards and
Mr. Patrick Steptoe
did a laparoscopic oocyte
retrieval during a natural cycle
and used the husband's
sperm to fertilize
their retrieved oocyte
in the lab in a dish.
A few days later,
an 8-cell stage embryo was
placed inside Lesley's
uterine cavity.
